Hinesh Chauhan talks about building a chosen family when you don't have one nearby. He shares how neighbors helped fix his car and celebrate birthdays, and urges single parents especially to create these networks intentionally.
There was nobody around. It was just my parents, my brother and I. There was no extended family. There's no village, there's no support. There's no uncle, aunt, grandparents to, to bail us out from any challenges or to. To support my parents. It was, it was a very different upbringing from what I saw or heard from my other friends. Coming back from different breaks, especially Christmas, listening how they saw all these people got all these gifts as a child. I wanted all those material goods as well. So still do want them. I need to do one of those. Lincoln viral link Send me gifts, send me gifts. Maybe I need an only fans for that. Anyway, I digress. The point I'm trying to make is create the village of a community that you may not have. And I never realized that I'd wanted something so badly that I had made the effort to do that with my neighbors. And that's what I have now. I've got a beautiful extended family living all around me where I get the support as needed voluntarily. People come by, talk to me. They come by to just walk in and have a drink without a formal invitation. And I love it. I love that. I spent the week celebrating my friend's birthday who lives down the street. My car was broken, I had to get to the garage. My other neighbor drove me to drop it off and drove me to get it. It's that connection and that collaboration that we need. And as a single parent, create it wherever you live, wherever you moved. If it's new, reach out to your neighbors, invite them over, create the connections, create that support system for you, for your kids, because you may not know when you need it, but you will need it. And there's nothing but, but good that comes from all this. Not just for you, but also for them.
